Reel Freedom Films is a women-led company focusing on the development and production of theatrical motion pictures featuring women in lead roles,
​with an additional focus on LGBT themes. 

​Reel Freedom Films has been in business for almost 15 years, founded by Director Michelle Prevost to release her feature documentary “Trained In The Ways Of Men”.   In 2010, she was joined by Ilena Ferrer;  as a Producer/Director team, they have been establishing a track record of award-winning short films at film festivals worldwide.

Having made it’s niche in the short film industry, Reel Freedom Films is looking to moving into feature-length narrative film with the development of two scripts: 
 “The Bronx Yacht Club”,  and"The Heavenly Adoption Agency".







Michelle (Shelly) Prevost
Director Michelle Prevost founded Reel Freedom Films in 2004 when she produced her first documentary  “Trained in the Ways of Men”. Shelly comes from a background in R&D for various Special Effect companies including ILM, EA and SGI.

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Michelle Prevost began her film career in the documentary genre, Directing and Producing the short “Isn’t It Obvious?” (2004) followed by the feature length “Trained in the Ways of Men”, premiering in 2007 at the Cinequest Film Festival. “Trained in the Ways of Men” is distributed by Cinequest. Both have been shown at numerous film festivals internationally, and Ms. Prevost still receives requests to show her films at LGBT events worldwide. 

Early in her career as a computer science researcher, Ms Prevost worked for NASA, and Silicon Graphics.  She then moved to Electronic Arts where she designed new interfaces and AI heuristics for computer games. She followed that work with large scale data visualization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Continuing to advance her technical skills for creative applications, Ms. Prevost joined Industrial Light and Magic as a software engineer. Her experience there sparked her interest in special effects and she has since written, directed, and created effects for several short films.
Ms. Prevost strives to bring attention to issues that are important to her, carefully interweaving the underlying social themes into her storytelling.

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Ilena Ferrer
Ilena Ferrer has over twenty-five years of experience in production, from commercials to live event coverage to short films. 
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Ilena Ferrer began her career in production at Post-Newsweek Cable (PNC) as a commercial Producer and Computer Graphics Specialist. From PNC, she then moved to Producer/Director for Sonora Gold Productions, responsible for three weekly shows as well as broadcast specials of events throughout Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties.  Notable credits include Smithsonian award-winning music video: “Into the Fire” (Black Irish Band), Resource Advisory Committee’s video presentation to Congress for extension of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, and five years continuous broadcast  of the Mother Lode Round Up Parade, the second largest parade in California. 

Since returning to the Bay Area in 2010, Ms Ferrer has been an active Producer/AD, working on short films, projection installations, live event coverage, VR/360 projects, and music videos. Additionally, she works as a Technical Director, bringing her leadership skills to live studio and remote streamed productions.

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